Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:22:42 -0500 From: Xiaowei Yang <yxw@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig kills my machine Message-ID: <36BF4792.52BFA1D7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <36BE5FC1.4487EB71@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <36BF38D3.A030A7B1@softweyr.com>
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> > > > However, "ifconfig fxp0" killed the machine. I lost keyboard. I tried to > > uncomment the lines in rc.network and left only > > network_interfaces="lo0". Still , rebooting died at the ifconfig point. > > > I've seen this on a Toshiba Equium 7000S, with onboard fxp0. The first > DMA operation in the configuration of the chip never completes. I re- > installed 2.2.7 on that machine, since I didn't have time to investigate > then. If I ever get done with my "FPX" code at work (maybe this week, > if I'm lucky) I'll poke into this fxp problem. ;^) > The problem might be fixed by enabling PCI bus-mastering in the BIOS. My cards seem to work now. Both 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 donot have this problem. My machine used to work under 2.2.6 without enabling PCI bus-mastering and I have another hardware identical machine running 2.2.7 with fxp0 and de0 without PCI bus-mastering. Thanks a lot for the help from this list. I am happy I survived 3.0 upgrade. --Xiaowei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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